AMD FX-9370 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Price

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$ 212.02

$ 189.95

$ 22.07 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2779 points

9% slightly better overall score

2544 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4131 points

1% slightly better gaming score

4070 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

2091 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2255 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

2009 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.74 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

39.80 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.4 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

575th of 1,089

618th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-9370 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9370 is faster than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 V2 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-9370 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-9370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.